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<h1 class="topictitle1">Manually Executing Backup</h1>
<div><p>If you want to perform a backup immediately, you can manually perform the backup.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Context</h4><ul><li>During the execution of a manual backup job, parameters (except <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Automatic Retry</strong></span></b></span>) defined in the SLA, such as <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Rate Limiting Policies</strong></span></b></span>, <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Automatic Indexing</strong></span></b></span>, and <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Application-Consistent Backup</strong></span></b></span>, take effect.</li><li>Copies generated by manual backup are retained for the duration defined in the SLA.<p>If the protection policy selected during manual backup is not defined in the SLA, the generated backup copy is retained permanently. If forever incremental (synthetic full) backup is not defined in the SLA but selected for manual backup, copies generated by the manual forever incremental (synthetic full) backup will be retained forever.</p>
</li><li>If a replication or archive policy has been defined in the SLA, the system will perform replication or archiving once based on the SLA when you perform manual backup.</li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Prerequisites</h4><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792547708_p13641388441">If the ESXi host uses a domain name for registration, ensure that the mapping between the IP address and name of the target host has been added. For details, see <a href="en-us_topic_0000001792387948.html">Backup or Restoration Fails Because the Domain Name of the ESXi Host Cannot Be Identified by the Backup Agent Host</a>.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_uicontrol1738217261378"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_text738292620372"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; Virtualization &gt; VMware</b></span>.</span></li></ol><ol start="2"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li13875113304412"><span>Click the <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol1572748216"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text5567112010217"><strong>Cluster</strong></span></b></span>, <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol182551045216"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text792108125"><strong>Hosts</strong></span></b></span>, <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol398415287311"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text1347113092211"><strong>VMs</strong></span></b></span>, or <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__b68647305514">VM Groups</strong> tab based on the type of data to be backed up.</span><p><div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__note136461521191212"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__ul1357111371313"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li35361939337"><strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792547708_b457194514216">VM Groups</strong> is available only in 1.6.0 and later versions.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li45717377313">When you select <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol4661223496"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text10257815133"><strong>Cluster</strong></span></b></span> or <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol866423997"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text5209182174812"><strong>Hosts</strong></span></b></span> for backup, only VMs with the same SLA as the cluster or host are backed up. VMs with different SLAs from the cluster or host are not backed up.</li></ul>
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</p></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li0827174519"><span>In the row of the cluster, host, VM, or VM group to be backed up, choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol58631047392"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text1648763311257"><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text109939110248"><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span></b></span>.</span><p><div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__note1527151103"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_p870125314544">You can select multiple clusters, hosts, or VMs and choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_uicontrol14182155715711"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text662114113158"><strong>More</strong></span> &gt; <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__en-us_topic_0000001792503838_text1068159191519"><strong>Manual Backup</strong></span></b></span> in the upper left corner of the page to manually back up data in batches.</p>
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</p></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li5644125184512"><span>Set the name of the copy generated through manual backup.</span><p><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__p444210492470">If this parameter is left empty, the system sets the name to <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__b1387352211594">backup_</strong><em id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__i118731228596">Timestamp</em> by default.</p>
</p></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li9911344144518"><span>Select a protection policy, which can be <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text46375173617"><strong>Full backup</strong></span> or <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__text162775423352"><strong>Forever Incremental (Synthetic Full) Backup</strong></span>.</span></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__li2637101024612"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792387984__uicontrol143791852726"><b>OK</b></span>.</span></li></ol>
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